Hemlock Flat

The village of Hemlock Flat, New Hampshire is deep in the torpor of record breaking heat, when Jimmy Baker, after seventeen years of no contact, returns for the funeral of his great-aunt, Altoona Baker.

When sixteen-year-old Eliza Johnson dissappears on a trail run, and one of the Johnson farm's prized Highland cattle is found mangled and partially eaten by a mysterious predator, fear grips the village and a frantic search for Eliza, led by Jimmy's uncle, George Baker, the county sheriff, sweeps the area.

Adrift in his great-aunt's old house in the shadow of the Croydon Mountains, Jimmy finds himself pulled back to times he has worked hard to forget, and discovers that his great-aunt, though in her grave, has things to tell him about his past and his future.